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91_HB4704
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1 AN ACT concerning fire protection districts.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Fire Protection District Act is amended
5 by changing Section 6 as follows:
6 (70 ILCS 705/6) (from Ch. 127 1/2, par. 26)
7 Sec. 6. Board of trustees. The trustees shall
8 constitute a board of trustees for the district for which
9 they are appointed, which board of trustees is declared to be
10 the corporate authority of the fire protection district, and
11 shall exercise all of the powers and control all the affairs
12 and property of such district. The board of trustees at their
13 initial meeting and at their first meeting following the
14 commencement of the term of any trustee shall elect one of
15 their number as president and one of their number as
16 secretary and shall elect a treasurer for the district, who
17 may be one of the trustees or may be any other citizen of the
18 district and who shall hold office during the pleasure of the
19 board and who shall give such bond as may be required by the
20 board. Except as otherwise provided in Sections 16.01
21 through 16.18, the board may appoint a fire chief and such
22 firemen as may be necessary for the district who shall hold
23 office during the pleasure of the board and who shall give
24 such bond as the board may require. The board may prescribe
25 the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and
26 employees of the fire protection district. A member of the
27 board of trustees of a fire protection district may be
28 compensated as follows: in a district having fewer than 4
29 full time paid firemen, a sum not to exceed $1,000 per annum;
30 in a district having more than 3 but less than 10 full time
31 paid firemen, a sum not to exceed $1,500 per annum; in a
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1 district having either 10 or more full time paid firemen, a
2 sum not to exceed $2,000 per annum. In addition, fire
3 districts that operate an ambulance service pursuant to
4 authorization by referendum, as provided in Section 22, may
5 pay trustees an additional annual compensation not to exceed
6 50% of the amount otherwise authorized herein. The
7 additional compensation shall be an administrative expense of
8 the ambulance service and shall be paid from revenues raised
9 by the ambulance tax levy. The trustees also have the
10 express power to execute a note or notes and to execute a
11 mortgage or trust deed to secure the payment of such note or
12 notes; such trust deed or mortgage shall cover real estate,
13 or some part thereof, or personal property owned by the
14 district and the lien of the mortgage shall apply to the real
15 estate or personal property so mortgaged by the district, and
16 the proceeds of the note or notes may be used in the
17 acquisition of personal property or of real estate or in the
18 erection of improvements on such real estate. The trustees
19 have express power to purchase either real estate or personal
20 property to be used for the purposes of the fire protection
21 district through contracts which provide for the
22 consideration for such purchase to be paid through
23 installments to be made at stated intervals during a certain
24 period of time, but, in no case, shall such contracts provide
25 for the consideration to be paid during a period of time in
26 excess of 25 years. The trustees have express power to
27 provide for the benefit of its employees, volunteer firemen
28 and paid firemen, group life, health, accident, hospital and
29 medical insurance, or any combination thereof; and to pay for
30 all or any portion of the premiums on such insurance. Such
31 insurance may include provisions for employees who rely on
32 treatment by spiritual means alone through prayer for healing
33 in accord with the tenets and practice of a well recognized
34 religious denomination. The board of trustees has express
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1 power to change the corporate name of the fire protection
2 district by ordinance provided that notification of any
3 change is given to the circuit clerk and the Office of the
4 State Fire Marshal. The board of trustees has full power to
5 pass all necessary ordinances, and rules and regulations for
6 the proper management and conduct of the business of the
7 board of trustees of the fire protection district for
8 carrying into effect the objects for which the district was
9 formed.
10 The board of trustees may provide for a recruitment and
11 retention incentive benefit program for volunteer and
12 part-time firefighters for whom a pension is not otherwise
13 provided under Article 4 of the Illinois Pension Code. The
14 cost of funding those benefits, either directly or through
15 contractual arrangements, however, shall not exceed 2% of the
16 annual budget and appropriation of the fire protection
17 district providing the benefit.
18 (Source: P.A. 85-1434; 86-1194.)